A second series of Fireball anime shorts has been green-lit by Disney Japan, with Wataru Arakawa returning as writer and director for the new 3D CG shorts. The first Fireball series aired in 2008, and featured a female robot duchess named Drossel von Flügel and her guardian servant robot Gedächtnis. A third character, a monkey-robot named Die Schadenfreude, also joins them later.